-tum

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by WingerBot (talk | contribs) as of 06:17, 15 October 2019.
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: tum, túm, tüm, and -tum-

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German -tuom, from Old High German -tuom, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz (“-dom”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos (“thing put”). Cognate with English -dom, Dutch -dom, Swedish -dom.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tuːm/, [tʰuːm]
  • Audio:(file)

Suffix

-tum n or m (genitive -tums or -tumes, plural -tümer)

  1. A suffix used to derive abstract nouns: -dom.

Declension

Template:de-decl-noun-m

See also

German terms suffixed with -tum

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “-tum”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology 1

From -tus (forming adjectives).

Suffix

Template:la-suffix-form

  1. masculine accusative singular of -tus
  2. neuter nominative singular of -tus
  3. neuter accusative singular of -tus
  4. neuter vocative singular of -tus

Etymology 2

From -tus (forming nouns of action).

Suffix

Template:la-suffix-form

  1. accusative singular of -tus
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=-tum&oldid=55553368"